Class Bigotry and the Death Tax

There has been a lot of talk lately about the current administrations desire
to reform or outright repeal the Estate tax or "Death" tax. Many social
liberals, and even some wealthy Americans (who, ostensibly, are those
who opponents of Death tax repeal cite as the real winners of this
initiative) oppose repealing the death tax as "unfair", "unjust" or even "evil".
They use rhetoric and "buzz" words like "ultra-rich" and "welfare for the
wealthy" in an effort to stir up baser feelings of class-envy.

Yet, for all their spinning about "justice" and "selflessness" and "the plight
of the working man" they fail to affect even one iota the fact that the state
of taxation in this nation is oppressive to EVERY American, and is most
harsh on those who pay the most - the so-called "wealthy".

I will not attempt to define wealthy here. It would be an exercise in futility. I
will however point out the fact no matter where you personally decide to
draw that particular line, you can be damned sure whatever percentage of
income the poor "wealthy" sod on that line is forced to pay, someone who
makes 10,000 a year more than him will pay more in taxes. Both
technically, in that a larger PERCENTAGE of his income will go to taxes
as well as literally.

Additionally, the same thing can be said of the "middle class". Someone
earning $50,000.00 will pay more in taxes than someone making
$35,000.00.

What's the point? That the more you make, the more you pay (both as a
percentage of income AND actual amount paid).

Seems a rather simple and obvious concept no? Yet it is also something
most opponents of all tax reform fail to remember (consistently I might
add). The so called "rich and privileged" are the ones who pay most of the
bills in this nation. That top 10% that are continuously whined about pay
over 70% (calculating the total tax burden) of the money that keeps this
nation afloat to begin with. There would be no "surplus' or "economic
boom" without the billions in tax dollars paid by "wealthy" corporations and
the "individuals of privilege" who run them, not to mention the millions of
Americans who cross that imaginary line between "wealthy" and "Middle
Class"

But all of that is really besides the point and clouds the issue - which is
rather simple to understand as well - and that point is this: Taxation,
especially at the oppressive levels levied in this country, is almost
indistinguishable from theft, and if some level of taxation is a practical,
necessary evil, it should be applied evenly to all Americans across the
board. No one group of "Americans" should be more or less responsible
than any other group for the financial support of the nation which all
Americans call home.

I do not believe that I should be taxed more than anyone else - especially
at my death. I pay my fair share and then some. To claim that I, or any
other American for that matter, immediately owes an even greater financial
obligation to the nation based on no greater fact OTHER than having
shuffled off this mortal coil would be funny if it was not so insulting - THAT
is the REAL problem with the "Death Tax".

It is insulting because it is un-American. It is un-American because it is
unequal and unfair. It is un-American because it says to the so-called
wealthy "YOU" have an obligation to support "OUR" Union more than "I"
do. It places an unequal burden on a small section of Americans while
lending protected status to others. In short, it is discriminatory. Bigotry
and discrimination need not be only based on race or ethnic background
or religion...it can also be economic as well, and that is what the estate
tax amounts too - class bigotry.

We are a nation of class bigots, and those who are the most vocal
advocates for unequal taxation have become, in my humble opinion, the
moral equivalent of racists.